transparency – The News Desk

28Dec

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Business

AI and Journalism Need Each Other

In the Associated Press newsroom a decade ago, I witnessed the birth of a new era: AI penning news. Before artificial intelligence rose to its current prominence, it wasn’t tech luminaries but journalists at AP who floated the audacious idea of machines taking up editorial roles. As I watched lines of code spin stories, a thought nagged at me: Weren’t stories meant to be earned, not generated?Fast-forward to today, and this once-controversial shift has proved revolutionary for AP and many other organizations. Tackling two monumental challenges in journalism—covering an ever-expanding breadth of news and overcoming the limits of human capacity—AI has reshaped the industry. AI enabled AP to broaden its quarterly financial reporting from 400 companies to 4,000. This had ripple effects: Stanf...

Anti-money laundering talks collapse amid rifts on football, super-rich

13Dec

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Money

Anti-money laundering talks collapse amid rifts on football, super-rich

Legislators have agreed on the shape of a new money laundering agency — but not its location, nor the rulebook it will follow ADVERTISEMENTTalks on a new EU anti-money laundering regulation collapsed late last night with negotiators still at odds over how to treat football and the super-rich, two sources briefed on the talks have told Euronews.Lawmakers and governments are aligned on the outlines of a new EU authority to supervise 40-odd major banks, a deal hailed as a game-changer for the bloc, which has been keen to draw a line after a series of dirty-money scandals.But there's still no agreement on where to put the new agency, nor the exact rulebook it'll enforce. Delay could mean the new regulation won't take effect until late next year.One area of contention concerns r...